| Eileen Barker Talk:Eileen_Barker
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| Clemente Domínguez y Gómez Clemente Domínguez y Gómez (May 23 1946–March 22 2005) was a self-proclaimed successor of Pope Paul VI, and was recognised as Pope Gregory XVII by supporters of the Palmarian Catholic Church Catholic breakway movement in 1978. His claim was not taken seriously by mainstream Roman Catholicism, the vast majority of whom were unaware of his existence.Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, who was born in Seville, Spain, became closely associated with the Palmar de Troya movement, which had its origins in an alleged apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary on March 30 1968 in El Palmar de Troya, a little village near Utrera in the Province of Seville. Clemente_Domínguez_y_Gómez
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| New religious movement New religious movement (NRM) is a term used to refer to a religious faith or an ethical, spiritual, or philosophical movement of recent origin that is not part of an established denomination, church, or religious body.The term NRM comprises a wide range of movements ranging from loose affiliations based on novel approaches to spirituality or religion to communitarian enterprises that demand a considerable amount of group conformity and a social identity that separates its adherents from mainstream society. New_religious_movement
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| Fourth Way For P.D. Ouspensky's book titled 'The Fourth Way' see Fourth Way (book). For the jazz group, see The Fourth Way (band).In his early lectures G.I. Gurdjieff described his approach to self-development as a Fourth Way. In contrast to the three eastern teachings that emphasize the development of the body, mind, or the emotions separately, Gurdjieff's exercises worked on all three at the same time to promote comprehensive and balanced inner development. Fourth_Way
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| Charismatic authority sociologist Max Weber defined charismatic authority as "resting on devotion to the exceptional sanctity, heroism or exemplary character of an individual person, and of the normative patterns or order revealed or ordained by him." Charismatic authority is one of three forms of authority laid out in Weber's tripartite classification of authority, the other two being traditional authority and rational-legal authority. The concept has acquired wide usage among sociologists. Charismatic_authority
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| Harry Potter in translation The Harry Potter series of fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling have become some of the most widely-read works of children's literature in history, with readers of all ages and in many countries. In May 2008, worldwide sales of Harry Potter books were estimated to be over 400 million copies, and the books have been translated from the original English into 67 languages. Harry_Potter_in_translation
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| Scientology controversies Since the Church of Scientology's inception in 1954, numerous Scientologists have been involved in scandals, at times serving prison sentences for crimes, such as those committed in Operation Snow White. While some mainstream media outlets have publicized alleged abuses, representatives of the church have claimed to be under attack by critics who misrepresent the church's intentions in order to fulfill a nefarious agenda. Scientology_controversies
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| Michael Jenkins (religious leader) Michael Jenkins is chairman of the ACLC. Unification Church of the United States from 2000 to 2009. Michael_Jenkins_(religious_leader)
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| Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis Ancient Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis (AMORC), also called Rosicrucian Order, is a philosophical and humanist worldwide fraternal organization. Members are known as students. The organization states it is devoted to "the study of the elusive mysteries of life and the universe". The organization is non-sectarian and it is open to both men and women of legal adult age (18 years old in most countries) regardless of their various religious persuasions. Ancient_Mystical_Order_Rosae_Crucis
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| Christian countercult movement Talk:Christian_countercult_movement
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| Sea Org The Sea Organization or Sea Org is an association of Scientologists established in 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer and founder of Scientology. Its members are found in the central management organizations of the Church of Scientology as well as in individual churches. While it was initially created around maritime customs and traditions while at sea, those customs and traditions persist today even in the land-based branches of the organization. Sea_Org
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| Alice Bailey Alice Ann Bailey (June 16, 1880Alice A. Bailey or AAB, was born as Alice LaTrobe Bateman, in Manchester, England—at 7Dane Rudhyar. She moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life as a writer and teacher. She wrote on spiritual, occult, astrological, Theosophical, Christian and other religious themes.Her works, written between 1919 and 1949, describe a wide-ranging system of esoteric thought covering such topics as how spirituality relates to the solar system, meditation, healing, spiritual psychology, the destiny of nations, and prescriptions for society in general. Alice_Bailey
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| New Acropolis New Acropolis (NA), (official name - Asociación Cultural Nueva Acrópolis. is a worldwide non-profit organisation founded in 1957 by Jorge Angel Livraga Rizzi (died 1991) New_Acropolis
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| Hate group A hate group is an organized group or movement that advocates physical or verbal aggression toward or refusal to interact with persons on the basis of those persons' possession and/or exhibition of a certain characteristic. Many hate groups espouse or rhetorically appeal to the proposition that persons exhibiting the characteristic in question are members of a group of persons exhibiting that characteristic, regardless of whether that group's existence, boundaries, and set of members are self-proclaimed or are instead merely alleged by the hate group to possess an independent existence arising from conceptual distinctions that the hate group draws. Hate_group
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| Living Church of God The Living Church of God (LCG) is one of the church groups formed by followers of the teachings of the late Herbert W. Armstrong. It was formed as a series of major doctrinal changes were introduced in the Worldwide Church of God (WCG, originally incorporated as the Radio Church of God) after Armstrong's death in 1986. Living_Church_of_God
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| Yusuf al-Qaradawi Yusuf al-Qaradawi (), (born September 9, 1926) is an Egyptian Muslim scholar and preacher best known for his popular al Jazeera program, ash-Shariah wal-Hayat ("Shariah and Life"), and IslamOnline (a website that he helped to found in 1997), where he offers opinions and religious edicts ("fatwa") based on his interpretation of the Qur'an. He has also published some fifty books, including The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam and Islam. Yusuf_al-Qaradawi
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